Plenary Speakers

Richard Smith Lusimbo is the Founder and Director General of The Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC). He is also the Board Secretary for the UKPC Board of Directors (BOD) and sits on the UKPC Board of Trustees (BOT). The Uganda Key Populations Consortium is a coalition of key population organisations and networks that brings together representatives of key populations to collectively define and advocate for issues of common concern, including response to shrinking civic space and resources for key population-led programming in Uganda.

Richard is a well-known and respected LGBTIQ+ and Human Rights activist across the African continent that hails from Uganda, East Africa. He started his activism in his early twenties and has been a trailblazer for young leadership in Uganda and beyond. Richard holds a Bachelor of Information Technology Degree from Uganda Christian University (UCU), a Master of Philosophy in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (MPhil HRDA) from the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa and an International Training Programme in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ITP) from Lund University in Sweden.

Richard is a passionate advocate for marginalised community voices to be present in policy, laws, national frameworks, working groups, committees, and all spaces where their human rights and health issues are discussed and documented. Before founding UKPC, Richard worked as the SMUG, Research and Documentation Manager at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and Programs Manager at Pan-Africa ILGA (PAI). He also sits on several boards, governance spaces and technical working groups at national, African and Global levels, respectively.

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